It seems appropriate to sum up the last year with what I can only call the Understatement Of The Year: We sure have learned a lot. Which, admittedly, is a euphemism for: Holy crapola, we have encountered more obstacles and challenges than we ever imagined.
There was the location dance that cost us several months. There [...]

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John Robb has an interesting short post over at Global Guerrillas talking about “highly decentralized hot spots of local innovation.” Say what? Allow us to translate: that’s apparently geek speak for “cool restaurant that acts as a magnet for forward thinkers who wish to gather and exchange ideas.” Robb is talking about how, in the [...]

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Eli Malinsky is the Program Manager for the Centre for Social Innovation, a sort of coworking space in Toronto that offers collaborative workspace to those working to “make positive change in the world.” The Centre opened in 2004 and since then their space has expanded considerably. So they’ve had a chance to figure out what [...]

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The vertical panels for our custom desks are in place, and man are they stunning! Here’s a quickie 32-second video showing them off. LaunchPad coworking is really taking shape :)

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Over at her blog, The Medium, at NYT, Virginia Heffernan recently reminded us about cybercafes. Not really a predecessor to coworking spaces, these were places early adopter geeks could go and do their private virtual whatever in a public space. It wasn’t about collaboration or networking. It was about emailing in one another’s presence.
Heffernan mentions [...]

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A few days ago, I posted about how it’s likely Obama will have to give up his Blackberry. This came to my attention in a New York Times article. Well, the Times did a related post looking at past presidents and noting how some of them had access to cutting edge innovations before the public [...]

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Edible Austin, is a gorgeously produced free magazine spotlighting local awesome eating possibilities for Austin foodies. This week they’re sponsoring Eat Local Week with two excellent goals in mind — to help “Central Texans to explore and celebrate the abundance of local food and to raise money for Urban Roots, a youth development program that [...]

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Springwise recently called our attention to a cool project being sponsored by Swedish clothing company, Elvine. In the interest of promoting what they term Creative Social Responsibility (CSR) — a play on Corporate Social Responsibility — the company is offering creative types free, no-strings-attached accommodations in the form of a place called Creators Inn in [...]

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So I’ve been online since 1995 — not as early as the true pioneers but still, a little ahead of the curve. Mostly I just live, breathe, and work on the Internet, a fully immersed cyber citizen who ’t stop to gawk at surroundings that have been familiar to me for going on fourteen years. [...]

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Do you like that word — twansparency? I just coined that after reading this news story in which Twitter CEO and co-founder Ev Williams shows he has the cojones to worry aloud about where his company is heading.
Now maybe this is a case of sandbagging — maybe Williams is just pretending to worry the way [...]

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